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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
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It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
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If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
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No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
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Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
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Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!
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